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  • looking for you

    Caustic Assets – video show, 2009, Centre for Art Tapes, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Sackville, NS It started with a walk. Behind Gastown in downtown Vancouver, near the cruise ships that come into the harbour, there is a sidewalk that leads to parklands and docks and is frequented by families, tourists, binners and the unhoused. I…

  • It Adds Up

    Sylvie Burch is a garbage picker. That’s what they call her in town though the proper title is binner, according to the binners who collect bottles and cans behind the diner where she works. Sylvie used to help them out, putting the customer’s empties into separate bags when she cleaned up at the end of…

  • accidents happen

    When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the story of the man who left nothing behind but a foot in a slipper. Supposedly, he died of Spontaneous Human Combustion while on the toilet.

  • Saturday Special

    “Beauty!” says the wheat blonde man with his checkered shirt tucked into the back of his sagging jeans. He’s inspecting a statue: carved oak, fringed and feathered, one hand raised like a visor, skin stained red.

  • see you all

  • like in movies

    hairs touch hairs on forearms, sharingarm rests in first date theatres #fragment #poem

  • Hello world!

    This is a space for my writing, art, and assorted sundries. It’s just a baby but, hopefully, it will grow in time. Follow along in your corner of the Fediverse.